10 Fun Wedding Games Ideas for Your Reception Enjoyable Activities For Bride and Groom and the Guests

This wedding game is perfect for the wedding reception. Play it while the newlyweds are away to be photographed or during the wedding dinner.

You can easily prepare the game beforehand by writing down some statements/questions about the couple. Then, the guests must try to guess which of the bride or groom best fits that statement/question.

Read the statement aloud when everybody has finished guessing and let the bride and groom give the correct answers. Perhaps they can even share a story about the answer.

Some Examples of Questions You Can Use:

• Who would be most relaxed while waiting for dinner at a restaurant?
• Who is more likely to take a dip in a cold lake?
• Who can manage the longest without WiFi?
• Who eats an ice cream cone fastest?
• Who laughs the most at bad jokes?

This game is perfect when everyone’s waiting for the bride and groom to arrive at the wedding reception. It’s also great to let the tables compete during dinner.

The rules are simple and easy. Come up with 5 themes that are wedding related. The most important thing about a theme is that there are plenty of things to associate with it.

Suggestions of Themes:

• Something white.
• Things found at weddings.
• What you don’t want to happen at the wedding ceremony.
• Feelings at weddings.
• Love songs.

Come up with a short wedding-related word of 4-5 letters, for example, RING or BRIDE. Create columns for each letter of this word and write the letter above the column. Then, write your themes on the left side and let them mark rows. The challenge for the guests is to fill in words as quickly as possible that match the column’s letter and the row’s theme.

So if you’re using the word RING, the guests must come up with four words for each theme that start with R, I, N, and G. Something white starting with R could, for example, be rice.

You decide if there’s a time limit of 10-15 minutes or if the first team to complete the challenge wins.

This game is entertaining for both large and small weddings. At large weddings, it’s the most fun to do team competitions.

Get the guests at the wedding a chance to move their bodies after the wedding dinner.

Play the bride and groom’s favorite party songs. Then, let everyone dance the best they can, and when the music stops, everybody must freeze and try not to move.

The newlyweds will then judge and point out the people who fail to freeze and thus are out of the game. Then the music starts for another round until only the winner is left.

This fun wedding game is both simple and pretty much free to play. It works well at large weddings, small weddings, and budget weddings.

In this game, there’s a text with missing words, and both the bride and groom get a copy. Their task is to fill in these missing words without looking at each other’s papers or talking. Then, at the wedding reception, the filled-out texts are read aloud to give everyone a chance to hear how similar the newlyweds managed to answer.

It’s a good idea to let the missing words be places or memories from their shared life. So you can write whatever you want and make it as silly as you like.

Suggestion of What the Text Could Look Like:

We first met at (…………) on the date (………).

Our first date went (……….) and (………) got to meet (……..) parents first.

The most daring thing we’ve done together is (……….) and the most embaressing thing was (……….).

On our first trip together we went to (……..) and saw (……….). The trip’s most memorable moment was when (…………..).

On today’s wedding there’s (………..) guests and the oldest is (………) years old and the youngest is (………) years old.

Go Fishing or Fish Pond is a game you expect to see at a kids' birthday party and not as a wedding game. It’s a lot of fun, though, so don’t be too fast to dismiss it! The game is great fun for kids, adults, and the elderly alike.

This is a perfect chance to play pranks! Have something special in store for key people close to the newlyweds.

This lovely wedding activity works great indoors and outdoors and can be played while everyone is waiting for the bride and groom to arrive at the wedding reception.

Prepare the game by covering a doorway with a curtain or other large piece of fabric. Leave at least a foot of room at the top to pass through the fishing line from the pole. On the other side of the curtain, a helper is waiting to hook rewards on the fishing line. A helper in the front could help kids throw the fishing line over the curtain. Also, prepare a fishing pole by tying a string at the end of a pole, stick, or rod. Tie a clothespin at the other end of the string as the “hook.”

To play, the guests simply fish with the pole by throwing the hook over the curtain. Something will “bite” their hook, after which they’ll haul the prize back over the curtain. Each guest gets one try only.

If there are kids at the wedding, prepare fun stuff like soap bubbles, candy, bouncy balls, etc. For the adults, you can have prizes like a can of cold beer, chewing gum, candy, a note saying “The fish didn’t bite, but you are awesome anyway!”, a hot dog, etc.

Go ahead and have some fun and unexpected prizes, and don’t be afraid to put in some slips of paper saying the person, unfortunately, didn’t win. This will make it more exciting for the people fishing if not all are winning. Make sure kids always win, though.

Cooperation is vital in marriage and in this wedding game the newlyweds get a chance to show off their cooperation skills.

The newlyweds can play this game alone for everyone else to watch, or you can turn it into a competition where the newlyweds compete against a pair of their parents or friends.

In this game, the participants can use only one hand each and must keep the other hand behind their back. The task is to co-operate and perform tasks as fast as possible, with just two hands instead of four. When pairs compete, the fastest to complete a task wins.

You decide the tasks and how many you play.

Suggestions of Tasks:

• Peel a banana.
• Change a diaper on a doll (if they don’t have kids).
• Put a pillowcase on a pillow.
• Open a can of soda or beer and drink it. The catch is the person holding the can can’t be the one drinking it. It’s OK to take turns, but not hold and drink simultaneously.
• Cut a circle out of paper using scissors. Best looking circle wins.

This is the wedding version of the game Chubby Bunny. Challenge the newlyweds!

One at a time, the players will put a marshmallow in their mouth and try to say, “I am the one in charge here!”. No one must swallow their marshmallows. The one that completes the most rounds wins.

This game is the most fun to play early during the wedding reception when the guests don’t know each other that well yet.

To play, you ask 10 yes/no questions aloud, and those that agree wave their napkin. If there are kids at the wedding, make sure there are questions for them to wave at too.

Finish with a question where everyone gets to wave.

Suggestions of Questions and Statements:

• Who is related to the groom?
• Who are friends with the bride?
• Who has traveled more than 100 miles to be here today?
• Who has a tattoo?
• Who has studied with the bride?
• Who knew all the groom’s names before today?
• Who has worked with the bride?
• Who knows fewer than five people here?
• Who knew the groom even before you started school?
• Who is wearing something new today?
• Who has already talked about the weather?
• Who is at their first wedding?
• Who’s shoes are chafing? (It can be a fun thing to hand out chafing band-aids to these)
• Who has traveled with the bride?
• Who got lost on their way here?
• Who are single?
• Who has been at these premises before?
• Who has already snuck a peak of the dinner menu?
• Who has secretly taken off their shoes?
• Who knows how the newlyweds met?
• Who is excited about a fun wedding reception?

A wedding lottery will undoubtedly entertain the wedding reception guests. This friendly version lets everyone participate, regardless of age.

All the guests have to do is keep their eyes open.

You prepare the game by hiding a lot of “tickets” all around the wedding reception area. For example, among the table decorations, under plates, behind curtains, in a tree, or whatever suits your location. Make sure to have a lot of them, though.

When the guests arrive, tell them you have hidden tickets all around the place. When guests find one, they write their name on it and put it in a box where all tickets are collected.

Later during the wedding party, there will be a chance to win fine prizes. Tell everyone that the prizes are really nice to encourage the guests to explore. Every ticket they find increases their chance of winning.

The tickets can be, for example, heart-shaped pieces of paper.

If you don’t want the guests to rummage around, you can skip the tickets and let guests who wish to participate sign up for the lottery. Put slips of paper and a box at the wedding reception entrance and let them put their names into the box as they arrive.

As you announce the winners, tell everyone what the next prize will be just before you draw a ticket from the box.

Prepare 3-5 prizes. Examples of prizes are a gift to bring home, the opportunity to choose a dance song later in the evening, being the first to get a piece of cake (after the newlyweds, of course), or an extra bar ticket.

This is a trendy wedding reception game, and it’s easy to understand why. With the bride and groom in the spotlight, the guests all get a chance to participate right from their chair.

Prepare the game by coming up with some statements/questions. Then write these on, for example, a large blackboard you mount behind the newlyweds so that only the wedding guests can read what the it says. Display one statement at a time.

If a statement describes a guest, that guest stands up from their chair. The bride and groom must now guess the statement based on who stands up. What do they all have in common?

The game is the most fun when the newlyweds co-operate, but you can also let them compete against each other. In that case, give a point to the one who first figures out what the standing guests have in common.

This game is pretty hard, so make sure to start off with easy statements. Then, if the newlyweds get stuck, give them a few hints. Depending on the couple, the questions, and how fast you want to go, 5-10 rounds are probably enough.

Some Examples of Statements You Can Use

• You’re a parent of a newlywed.
• You’re wearing glasses.
• You’re married.
• You’re a sibling of a newlywed.
• You’re retired.
• You have the same name as the bride.
• You’re taller than the groom.
• You’re one of the bridesmaids.
• You work at the same place as the groom.
• You’re wearing a tie.
• You gave a speech during the wedding dinner.
• You’re a relative of the bride.
• You’ve been a friend of the groom since you were kids.
• You have a cat.
• You have kids attending this wedding.
• You have a beard.
• You’re wearing something blue.
• You’re single.
• You own a boat.
• You’re sitting closest to a corner at a table.
• You’re a cousin of the bride and groom.
• You have kids that’s moved out.
• You’ve seen the groom naked.
• You’re under 18.
• You’ve studied with the bride.
• You play golf.
• You live in the countryside.
• You were born in the 90s.